Zimbabwe High Court Frees Imprisoned Pastor Who Sleeps With His Female Congregants To Heal Them

A Pastor who makes use of intimacy as a way of therapeutic and delivering his feminine congregants from evil spirits, has been freed by a excessive court docket in Zimbabwe.

 

Founding father of By Grace Ministries in Machipisa, Highfields, Onbeat Mapfumo was arrested after he was uncovered by radio and tv character Tilder Moyo throughout one among her reside reveals. Mapfumo was arrested after admitting his misdeeds reside on air.

 

He was alleged to have pressured three ladies to be intimate with him and to have impregnated a fourth. The “man of God” appeared in court docket going through six expenses of rape. In July 2017, he was convicted of raping one feminine congregant on two separate events.

 

After Mapfumo was sentenced him to 22-years in jail, he appealed the case on the Excessive Courtroom.

 

Press Informant stories, that iHarare reported that the founding father of By Grace Ministries in Machipisa was freed after serving 4 years out of the 22-year sentence. Justice Pisirayi Kwenda dismissed his rape conviction on grounds of the ladies consenting to the intimacy and never being presurrized.

Stressing that the lady agreed after the pastor made it clear that he supposed to sleep together with her as a part of the “religious therapeutic course of”, the Choose added that after the primary encounter, the lady returned for one more session of religious therapeutic as a result of she wished to profit.

 

The choose deplored Pastor Mapfumo’s strategies, however discovered them to be completely authorized. Justice Kwenda stated;

 

“To the enlightened, the tactic of religious cleaning which the complainant stated she underwent was clearly of no profit to her, and disgusting, however in her personal phrases she sought remedy and voluntarily partook within the therapeutic course of as a result of she believed in its efficacy.

“The legislature might contemplate amending the structure to create an impartial fee that may act as a watchdog regulating the conduct of church buildings and with a selected mandate to advertise and shield freedoms of individuals in non secular communities.”